ideate & execute

#TLDR

Manually testing your UI across multiple browsers and platforms is time consuming. Your time should be spent writing code and building UI components, not running through scenarios in Chrome 39 on Mac OSX 10.10.1, and then again on Windows 8 and then testing IE! Let alone managing your own Selenium test farm…

At Mobile System 7 we’re always exploring ways to improve our process. Early this summer we had some disucssion about how to better decouple the UI, 99% Javascript, from the Rails application, which primarily powers our REST api. The opportunity to address this decoupling came when we added a story to address some UI build process issues.

Twenty fifteen. Time flies! I typically try to plan my year, personally, around my birthday, with more goal setting around that date. However the gravitas of New Years Day seems to grow with every passing year. Before you know it, we’re already 10 days into 2015. A good start to the new year can build momentum that can carry across the days, weeks and months.